Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

[Ludovic Courtès]

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:19:01 +0200
> Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hello Florian,
>> 
>> > Not using KMScon would prevent support for the Chinese and Japanese
>> > language during install, would it not?  
>> 
>> Yes and for other languages too.
>
> Yeah, but doesn't kmscon support vesa?  I mean I know the name kinda implies
> kernel modesetting, but doesn't it have a framebuffer fallback?
>
> I do mean we keep graphics terminal, but just use vesa instead of kms in order
> to set the graphics mode up.  (If that works)

I agree that this would be the best option, if it’s possible.  (I’m
surprised kmscon doesn’t automatically fall back to the framebuffer on
these AMD things.)

Ludo’.